by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The systems we use at work are woefully behind what we use at home. This is especially true if we work in a government organization.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n At the time I wrote this post, OpenAI demonstrated their GPT-4 with ChatGPT. That means I see how to summarize lots of things and understand what is in photos and save myself hours of typing well-known facts. Also, Microsoft has shown how all these things will appear in plain old boring Microsoft Word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyone can use Microsoft Word and take advantage of all this writing and summarizing and looking really smart, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wrong. I work inside a Federal government organization. We use Microsoft Word 2016. Yes, seven years behind. We will never see all these fancy AI Copilots and stuff at work. We are having a good day when the systems come on when scheduled and don’t crash during the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Okay, that’s our Federal government. But are most companies much better? Will all the companies have these new MS Word features on the same day that I have them at home on my personal account? Will their IT departments accredit them that fast? Will these things be deployed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Accredit? Deploy? Well, all those things are important and they take time. I understand that. Big companies have a lot at stake and don’t want to mess up by moving too fast. Me at home? Whatever, just do it. I have a backup. I’ll be okay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And that is why we hate IT at work. The Information Technology departments have a lot to do. They are worried about things I don’t understand. They have to move slowly. Sometimes laws require them to move slowly, and no one wants to go to jail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still, why can’t they just …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips The systems we use at work are woefully behind what we use at home. This is especially true if we work in a government organization. At the time I wrote this post, OpenAI demonstrated their GPT-4 with ChatGPT. That means I see how to summarize lots of things and understand what is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[469,310,54,3,67],"tags":[470,311,175,126,187],"class_list":["post-3860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-information","category-technical-debt","category-technology","category-work","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-information","tag-technical-debt","tag-technology","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3861,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions\/3861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}